TECHSUITS BANNED (again): AP article on FINA ruling

I don't know what has been motivating FINA to make so many changes recently--this is the third significant rule change in just a few months. Something doesn't "feel" right about what's going on. Quite a few folks are opposed to the tech suits. I love them. I enjoy looking at them, seeing the different kinds, wondering what their strengths are etc. Some of them are just cool to look at. And not a few Masters swimmers definitely look better in them (than out of them). I like the feel they give in the water. Do they help us swim faster. Yes. Definitely. Is that bad? Not in my opinion. Should we make pole vaulters give up fiber glass because it improved their vaults over the old metal pole? Tennis go back to wooden rackets? Track and field athletes go back to cinder? Golfers back to steel shafts and wooden woods? I suppose some would prefer that, not me. I agree with Rowdy Gaines that the tech suits have made swimming more fun to watch and talk about. Was some company NOT making enough money the way things are now? Will some do better without tech suits? You have to wonder. FINA has been all over the place. Is money involved? I am hoping they get over this most recent move and just let it roll with tech suits.

I don't know what has been motivating FINA to make so many changes recently--this is the third significant rule change in just a few months. Something doesn't "feel" right about what's going on. Quite a few folks are opposed to the tech suits. I love them. I enjoy looking at them, seeing the different kinds, wondering what their strengths are etc. Some of them are just cool to look at. And not a few Masters swimmers definitely look better in them (than out of them). I like the feel they give in the water. Do they help us swim faster. Yes. Definitely. Is that bad? Not in my opinion. Should we make pole vaulters give up fiber glass because it improved their vaults over the old metal pole? Tennis go back to wooden rackets? Track and field athletes go back to cinder? Golfers back to steel shafts and wooden woods? I suppose some would prefer that, not me. I agree with Rowdy Gaines that the tech suits have made swimming more fun to watch and talk about. Was some company NOT making enough money the way things are now? Will some do better without tech suits? You have to wonder. FINA has been all over the place. Is money involved? I am hoping they get over this most recent move and just let it roll with tech suits.